This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1944.
For an overview of world literature see 1944 in literature.
See also: 1943 in Australian literature, 1944 in Australia, 1945 in Australian literature.
The Ern Malley literary hoax is conceived when Angry Penguins editor Max Harris publishes the poems of the fictitious poet Ern Malley in the Autumn 1944 edition of his magazine. The poems had been concocted in 1943 by Australian writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart.
Bernard Cronin – The Shadows Mystery
Zora Cross – This Hectic Age
Zane Grey – Wilderness Trek: A Novel of Australia
Nevil Shute – Pastoral
Christina Stead – For Love Alone
Alan Marshall – "Trees Can Speak"
Katharine Susannah Prichard – Potch and Colour
Rosemary Dobson – In a Convex Mirror: Poems
Geoffrey Dutton – Night Flight and Sunrise
E. M. England – Queensland Days : Poems
R. D. Fitzgerald – "The Face of the Waters"
Will Lawson – Bill the Whaler and Other Verse
James McAuley – "The Blue Horses"
Ern Malley – The Darkening Ecliptic
Ian Mudie – Poets at War: An Anthology of Verse by Australian Servicemen
Kenneth Slessor
"Beach Burial"
One Hundred Poems: 1919-1939
Judith Wright
"Bora Ring"
"Brother and Sisters"
"Bullocky"
James Devaney – Shaw Neilson
Miles Franklin & Kate Baker – Joseph Furphy: The Legend of a Man and His Book
Alan Marshall – These are My People
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1944 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
3 January – Blanche d'Alpuget, novelist and biographer
20 January – Caroline Caddy, poet
17 February – Robert Dessaix, novelist and journalist
22 April – Damien Broderick, novelist and journalist
15 May – David Foster, novelist
22 May – John Flanagan, novelist
23 July – Alex Buzo, playwright (died 2006)
16 August – Roberta Sykes, author and poet (died 2010)
29 December – Gerard Windsor, novelist
Unknown date
Andrew Burke, poet
Bruce Elder, journalist
Ross Fitzgerald, novelist and historian
Morag Fraser, journalist and critic
Tim Thorne, poet
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1944 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
13 April – Ambrose Pratt, novelist (born 1874)
5 June – Capel Boake, novelist (born 1889)
